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Re: Selective rennaming of extension

From Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
Newsgroups comp.sys.mac.system
Subject Re: Selective rennaming of extension
Date 2018-09-13 15:15 +0000
Organization People for the Ethical Treatment of Pirates
Message-ID <fvvd83FrlhbU2@mid.individual.net> (permalink)
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On 2018-09-11, Alan Baker <nunya@ness.biz> wrote:
> On 2018-09-11 3:21 PM, Jolly Roger wrote:
>> On 2018-09-11, Alan Baker <nunya@ness.biz> wrote:
>>>
>>> So the only issue is for him in this case is that when a file has the
>>> ".doc" extension, the QuickLook system fails to display its contents.
>> 
>> That's a problem he seemingly created by renaming XML format Word
>> documents with the incorrect ".doc" extension though. I just checked and
>> QuickLook will display XML format Word documents with the correct
>> ".docx" filename extension without issue.
>
> But you've got it backwards:
>
> 'At the gui level, is there a way to select  all the Bell Mobility files
> and changing then from .doc to .docx so the Mac can quicklook or
> "Preview" of "Pages"  can open them ?'
>
> He's receiving Word files with a ".doc" extension that are actually in 
> DOCX format.
>
> I've tested this. A file that works perfectly in QuickLook when it has a 
> ".docx" extension fails when you change the extension to ".doc".
>
> Hence his desire to a bulk change.

Then correcting the filenames should fix the problem.

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Selective rennaming of extension JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2018-09-11 13:37 -0400
  Re: Selective rennaming of extension nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2018-09-11 13:50 -0400
    Re: Selective rennaming of extension JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2018-09-11 13:56 -0400
      Re: Selective rennaming of extension nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2018-09-11 14:03 -0400
      Re: Selective rennaming of extension Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2018-09-12 09:02 +1200
        Re: Selective rennaming of extension Alan Baker <nunya@ness.biz> - 2018-09-11 14:10 -0700
          Re: Selective rennaming of extension Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2018-09-11 22:21 +0000
            Re: Selective rennaming of extension Alan Baker <nunya@ness.biz> - 2018-09-11 15:27 -0700
              Re: Selective rennaming of extension Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2018-09-12 13:51 +1200
                Re: Selective rennaming of extension Alan Baker <nunya@ness.biz> - 2018-09-11 18:58 -0700
              Re: Selective rennaming of extension Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2018-09-13 15:15 +0000
                Re: Selective rennaming of extension Alan Baker <nunya@ness.biz> - 2018-09-13 08:18 -0700
            Re: Selective rennaming of extension JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2018-09-12 13:42 -0400
              Re: Selective rennaming of extension Alan Baker <nunya@ness.biz> - 2018-09-12 10:43 -0700
              Re: Selective rennaming of extension Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2018-09-13 15:16 +0000
        Re: Selective rennaming of extension Elden <usenet@moondog.org> - 2018-09-11 18:39 -0700
          Re: Selective rennaming of extension Alan Baker <nunya@ness.biz> - 2018-09-11 18:44 -0700
            Re: Selective rennaming of extension Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2018-09-12 18:15 +1200
              Re: Selective rennaming of extension nmassello@yahoo.com (Neill Massello) - 2018-09-12 14:14 -0600
          Re: Selective rennaming of extension Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2018-09-12 13:52 +1200
  Re: Selective rennaming of extension Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2018-09-11 18:17 +0000
    Re: Selective rennaming of extension JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2018-09-11 15:32 -0400
      Re: Selective rennaming of extension Alan Baker <nunya@ness.biz> - 2018-09-11 12:36 -0700
      Re: Selective rennaming of extension Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2018-09-11 22:18 +0000
      Re: Selective rennaming of extension Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2018-09-12 08:23 +0000
        Re: Selective rennaming of extension Alan Baker <nunya@ness.biz> - 2018-09-12 08:45 -0700
  Re: Selective rennaming of extension Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2018-09-12 08:50 +1200

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